On Mon, 27 Mar 1995, Dennis Paulson wrote:

> Chris, I didn't mean to imply that if your birds didn't screech, they
> weren't parakeets! There is a great diversity within this family, with all
> kinds of calls, and "squawk" describes some of them just as well as
> "screech." There are reports of a fair number of species "wild" in the
> Seattle area over the years.
>
> Maybe someone else in the region will see/hear these birds one of these
> days. Where exactly was your sighting?

On the playing fields by the University of Washington driving range
(golf), i.e. just south of University Village, Seattle. They were
northbound when they disappeared.

Chris